Topics in Subtropics

I had a chance to talk to PCA Dennis Seaton a few weeks back. During the farm call, he mentioned that he was making a survey of leaf yellowing in his clients citrus orchards.

It shouldnt be news to local citrus growers and industry people that the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) is being found with increasing frequency in the southern San Joaquin Valley. If this is news to you please follow the website at http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/acp/ and/or sign up for U.C.

Agricultural producers are constantly engaged in evaluating and analyzing their costs of production and returns to measure profitability and develop efficient production management strategies because of continually rising costs.

This article is reproduced because stinkbugs can attack avocado stems and weaken them, causing fruit drop. It' not clear that this species of stinkbug will attack avocado, but there is a possibility and we should all be on the lookout for it.

Since our last article on high-density avocados appeared in Topics in Subtropics (Vol. 10 no. 1, Spring 2012) we have had a lot of questions from growers concerning the cost of installation of such a grove.